Our Prime Minister is banking on a ‘gas-fired recovery’ but more gas will hurt our health, harm our climate and bring few jobs or any revenue to Australia. It’s time we started talking to our community about the real problems with gas. We would love you to be involved in our campaigns to shift our households and energy policies away from gas towards safer affordable clean energy. If you would like to join us in talking to our community about gas, please fill in the form here.
Let’s get the truth out there!
Join us on Saturday mornings from 10am to noon in Kew, Hawthorn and Camberwell, to talk about moving our homes and our energy systems away from gas. We are also building support for our upcoming #VoteClimate Federal campaign. Along with our friends at the Kooyong Climate Change Alliance, we are handing out high quality information on moving to safer, cleaner more affordable electric appliances, and petitioning Treasurer Frydenberg to stop spending public money on gas expansion. New volunteers will be paired with old hands. We will be out on the streets until mid December and will start again in 2022. If you have a couple hours during the week for phone calls, lobbying MP’s, flyer distribution or letter writing – please express your interest in the form here or call Lynn Frankes on 0425 843 685.
Handing out getting off gas brochures
Find out more about why making the transition away from gas is so important for our community. The government is pushing new gas as a solution for exports and economy, but fossil fuelled climate damage is accelerating. What is so frustrating is that it doesn’t have to be this way. We have good affordable alternatives for energy right now. We have the solutions, they just need to be scaled and implemented. More about why gas is bad for our health and our climate. Join the fight against gas- Victorian and National campaigns.
We don’t need more gas – Gas facts blog: Gas-fired recovery, a road to nowhere with Tony Wood an Bruce Mountain Lighter Footprints blog. Five reasons why gas is already becoming superseded from our blog on gas impacts and campaigning:
• Where should Australia be headed?
• We have the technology to move away from coal – it’s renewables and storage with improved grids
• We have the technology to move away from gas – it’s electrification (heat pumps) and development of green hydrogen
• We have the technology to move away from oil – it’s a move to electric vehicles and green hydrogen for heavy transport
• Renewables will increase our energy self sufficiency and help us avoid carbon tariffs as the world pivots away from fossil fuels
• Australia can be a renewable energy superpower – exporting electrons, green hydrogen and clean manufactured goods
• Nine reasons to move past gas
• Cam Walker on Victoria’s Gas Campaigns Guest Blog
• Clean electric homes Interactive guide pdf
• Step up and join us in community action
• Talking to our community is part of the solution: One on one conversations are the most effective way to bring people along the spectrum of concern about climate change. These conversations will have the added bonus of helping to make climate change the number one issue in Kooyong in the lead up to the Federal election.